Sacred Fire Magazine

Sacred Fire Magazine

Full of intimacy and humor, paradox and common sense, Sacred Fire Magazine provided a bridge extending back through time and pulling forward the living legacies of Ancient Wisdom for our world today. In the Spring of 2013, the Magazine was nominated for the Utne Media Award in the category of Body/Spirit publications.

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Back Issues

Nothing is Ever Lost + Appletalk + Divine Right Order + Deeper Ecology + No Garbage Karma Here + Divine Nourishment: Your Hands + Living the Heart Life + Quilt + Teeth + Leon and Maria in the Altai + Pistachios + Beyond Wild + Beaver + Here is the Story + Laurel Hill + Spirit of a City Park + Getting Right with Money + Reconnecting with the Earth: Looking Out from the Mesa at San Andres

The Lost People + Naked Forest + My Song of Place + Born to the Medicine + Finding the Path of Ancestral Wisdom + Who Sang You Awake, Father Sun? + The Lightness of Letting Go + Gathering Seeds + My Tio Louis + Remembering Connection + Raspberries + Stacking Wood + Reconnecting with the Earth

The Ice is Melting + Ritual: Correcting the Damage of Modernity + Spiritual Practice in a World at War + Opening the Sacred Doorway + Aloha, the Breath of Love + Relating to the Sacred + There is No Sufi Here + The Path of Fire-Filled Devotion + Nature Spirits, Ancestral Spirits, and the Sangoma

Keeping Knowledge Alive: Indian Pedagogy + A Look at Traditional California Indian Teaching Techniques + Lone Dancer + The Stories I Write + Keeper of the Ears + What The Violets Said to Me + Salmon, Bear, River + The Rainmaker + Walking A Journey + Any Given Morning + All My Relations + A Prayer for Peace: An Audience with Zulu High Sanusi Credo Mutwa

The Great Powers of the Universe Are Turning Against Us + A Letter to the Huichols of San Andres + Expressing the Values of the Tatewarí Group + Finding Sustainability in the 21st Century + Blood Moon + The Wheel of Sharp Weapons + An Okanagan Worldview of Society + Bonding Fires + Love Cracked My Heart: A Conversation with Ram Dass + My Last Wishes + Where is the Holy Land

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Key initiatives include:
Ancient Wisdom Rising, a series of gatherings with elders and wisdom keepers that offer hope, healing and renewed relationship with our sacred world.
Our grant-making program that ensures the continuity of Indigenous and traditional culture and lifeways
Wisdom Fellowships, annual awards to tradition holders who are keeping the sacred fires of their people burning.
Sacred Fire Press, a book imprint that preserves and presents spiritual teachings from ancient and original sources
Sacred Fire magazine, which offers a fresh outlook on modern culture by showing the relevance of ancient ways to today's world
Through this work we seek to help all people re-discover and celebrate their innate and intimate connection to our living world-- the source of all personal, cultural and environmental well-being.

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Languages, with their complex implications for identity, communication, social integration, education and development, are of strategic importance for people and planet. Yet, due to globalization processes, they are increasingly under threat, or disappearing altogether. When languages fade, so does....